When I attended grade school, our music classes often provided time for singing old folk songs from a state-approved textbook. I remember, in particular, “Erie Canal” and “Bicycle Built For Two.” For ...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since the untimely passing of singer-songwriter Jim Croce. The legendary artist was at the peak of his success, with hits that included “Bad, Bad Leroy ...

On Sept. 20, 1973 beloved singer and songwriter Jim Croce died when the chartered plane he was flying in crashed into a tree during takeoff in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce, who wrote the hit songs ...

UPPER DARBY – Peggy Eckenrode of Drexel Hill remembered hearing Jim Croce singing his song ‘Operator’ when she was 11 years old. ‘He was an inspiration,’ Eckenrode said. ‘I wanted to play the guitar ...

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Seconds after taking off from an airport in Natchitoches, La., on the night of Sept. 20, 1973, the small plane carrying musician Jim Croce clipped a tree in the darkness and crashed, killing all six ...

Singer/songwriter Jim Croce’s third album, You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, also served as his commercial breakthrough, launching the formerly obscure guitarist from the shadowy confines of dimly lit ...

Jim Croce was like a streaking comet in the rock ‘n’ roll sky, but his young life was cut short in an airplane crash on Sept. 20, 1973. Ten of his songs charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with five of ...